US Plant Patent PP5545
Hilkari
Carnation named Hilkari
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 8, 2003. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP5545
- Filed
- December 8, 1983
- Granted
- August 27, 1985
- Expires
- December 8, 2003
- Assignee
- HILVERDA B V
- Inventor
- HILVERDA JAN J
Abstract
A new carnation plant of the spray type distinguished by its relatively small flowers of a light pink coloration which are produced continuously and profusely on long flower stems borne on a tall, spray type bush having a rapid growth rate, abundant foliage, and reaching a height of about one meter.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of spray carnation, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized in particular by its delicate pink flower color, its profuse and continuous blooming habit, and the rapid growth rate of its tall, spray shape bush with relatively long flower stems.
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